I forgot to add that it is also nothing of the backlight setting itself, because calling xbacklight -set NN does not make AltGr unusable. On Do, 16 Apr 2009, Norbert Preining wrote: > I am having the following strange phenomenon: > > When I log into the gnome session the AltGr key is working, thus on my > German kbd I get > AltGr-q -> AT sign > AltGr-8 -> open square bracket > ... > As soon as I adjust the brightness with Fn-F5 or Fn-F6 the OSD with the > brightness level appears, the brightness is adjusted, but at the same > time the functionality of the AltGr key is lost. Pressing AltGr-q I get > a q instead of the AT sign. > > This is 100% repeatable, and happens only in Gnome. I tried the failsafe > terminal session and pressing the keys did not change anything, nor the > brightness, nor the AltGr behaviour. > > So I guess that the culprit is one of those adjusting the brightness, and > not the hardware support for sending the kbd events. > > Since a missing AltGr on a German kbd means there is no AT, no curly nor > square brackets, etc, that is very disturbing, and I need to restart X > to get normal behaviour back. > > Hard/Software: > - Sony Vaio VGN-Z11 > - kernel 2.6.29 plus latest sony-acpi patches from Mattia/ACPI ML > - Debian/sid up2date > > Hope that someone can help me there Best wishes Norbert ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Norbert Preining <preining@xxxxxxxx> Vienna University of Technology Debian Developer <preining@xxxxxxxxxx> Debian TeX Group gpg DSA: 0x09C5B094 fp: 14DF 2E6C 0307 BE6D AD76 A9C0 D2BF 4AA3 09C5 B094 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- KIRBY MISPERTON (n.) One who kindly attempts to wipe an apparent kirby (q.v.) off another's face with a napkin, and then discovers it to be a wart or other permanent fixture, is said to have committed a 'kirby misperton'. --- Douglas Adams, The Meaning of Liff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
